New York Times thanks Turkey for helping injured journalists

The U.S.-based New York Times newspaper has sent a letter of thanks to a Turkish aid agency for its effort to transfer two injured American journalists to an Istanbul hospital after a helicopter crash in northern Iraq, Anadolu agency reported.

"I wanted to express our deep gratitude for exceptional work that has been done by the Turkish government in evacuating our reporters ... from Iraq and getting them safely to an Istanbul hospital," Arthur Sulzberger, the newspaper's publisher, wrote in the letter.